Gustavo was born in San Ramón de Alajuela, Costa Rica. He has lived in many different places like Golfito, Limón, Desamparados, New Jersey, and Santa Ana.  He currently lives in Atenas with his family, Ariana and Sebastián. At the age of 19 he accepted the Lord Jesus as his Saviour and started attending a local Baptist Church in Desamparados.  A few years later he graduated from the Baptist Bible Institute in San Sebastián, Costa Rica with a BA in Christian Education.  He works for a bank full time and for the church part time. He also studied both accounting and economics.

In 2007 he started attending IBC and helping with the music ministry playing the piano and singing.  He also helped with the church´s accounting.  A few years later he became one of the regular worship leaders at church.  His music abilities are natural and inherited from his grandfather (Mom´s side) and also his father side.  It wasn't until he was 22 years old that he started to play the keyboard and sing.   Gustavo has an album in Spanish called “Vengo a Adorarte” with a variety of songs.  His song “For Your Saving Love” is featured in the IBC Worship CD called “Many Places Many Faces” and was in the top 10 songs for the Praisecharts.com 2013 Christian Song Competition.  He has composed several songs throughout the years and some of them are used in IBC as well as in other churches.

Gustavo’s been able to serve the Lord with his music ministry in churches in places such as New Jersey, Virginia, New York, Perú, Venezuela, Switzerland, Germany and of course Costa Rica where he serves as Worship Leader in IBC since June 2014.  He´s grateful to serve in this local church and appreciates the diversity of cultures this church offers as well as the leadership of the pastors.  He´s thankful for all the volunteers who serve together with him in leading the congregation in worship every Sunday and also for the unity of the church.